The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
1. The Web Standards
"Web standards are intended to be a common base... a foundation for the world wide web so that browsers and other software understand the same basic vocabulary". Eric Meyer
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and other standards bodies have established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. The actual standards are:
- Structural Languages
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 1.0
- XHTML 1.1
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
- Presentation Languages
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Level 1
- CSS Level 2
- CSS Level 3
- Object Models
- Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 (Core)
- DOM Level 2
- Scripting Languages
- ECMAScript 262 (the standard version of JavaScript)
- Additional Presentation Languages (Markup)
- Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 1.01
- MathML 2.0
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0